Chapter 271 11 consecutive victories, it's a ball flower, ask for a monthly ticket]
When the Bulls met the Celtics last year, the two teams could still compete.
After all, they are also a playoff team in the Eastern Conference, and the two forwards on the team, Paul Pierce and Anthony Walker, are also All-Stars.
But this year they were almost unilaterally defeated.
Originally they still had a slight advantage on the front line, but now that Lu Yu has come to the front line, Pierce and Walker were unable to hold down Lu Yu, not to mention that other players in other positions were being held down by the Bulls.
Hamilton beat Boston's shooting guard Tork in the first quarter. Lu Yu simply pressed Pierce the whole time. After beating Pierce, he was not satisfied. He played pick-and-roll with Boozer. Walker's eyes were filled with stars, and he went 17-0.
The score difference was directly reduced to 25 points, and the Bulls led by 30 points at halftime, sealing the victory early.
In the second half, the Bulls' main players played casually for a while and became spectators on the sidelines. Artest, Chandler, Mercer, Hassell and Crawford played more time as substitutes than the main players.
, still withstood the Celtics' counterattack.
At the end of the game, the Bulls easily got off to a good start 117-82. Six players on the team scored in double figures, and three scored 20.
The league's new rules are of no use to Lu Yu's defense. He has now moved to the small forward position. Most of the league's small forwards still play behind the elbow, so Lu Yu's defense is almost unaffected.
Lu Yu plays small forward and is different from other strikers. He is a shooting guard, so when he attacks, he often initiates from the outside and ends the confrontation inside, giving Pierce no chance to attack.
Lu Yu has the speed advantage when playing power forward, and the height and strength advantage when playing small forward. He faces mismatches in almost every position. How can the opponent defend against this?
The only Bull who is more comfortable than Lu Yu is veteran Oakley. He doesn't play much now and plays more of a locker room leader role.
He is the only audience in the first row.
In November, the Bulls defeated opponents one after another. Teams such as the Nets, Mavericks, Hawks, and Raptors failed to pose any threat to the Bulls.
Until November 20, when they met the Kings. The Bulls and Kings failed to meet in the finals last season, which became a regret for many fans.
In the first month of this season, they met and had a spark.
But the spark is not big.
In the last two minutes, Scalpel Christie failed to prevent Lu Yu's back hit. He is good at guarding outside players, but Lu Yu has now changed to a small forward. He can ask for the ball in the elbow area and hit him with his back. He is taller than Lu Yu.
Being five centimeters shorter, not to mention his wingspan, Lu Yu could basically squat down to the elbow and hit him like an inside player.
Lu Yu's back attack attracted Divac's double-team and then passed the ball to Hamilton who was running in the corner. Without Christie to defend Hamilton, it was expected that Bibby and Pei Jia would be able to keep up with him. Hamilton easily scored from mid-range.
, narrowing the point difference to 10 points and sealing the victory.
Lu Yu played 30 minutes and scored 26 points and 7 assists. Although Lu Yu's statistics this season are average, the team's record is much better than last season.
Now the Bulls have won 10 consecutive games!
On November 21st, the Bulls met the Warriors.
This game is the NBA's second China Derby this year.
The first game was between the Bulls and the Mavericks. However, because the Bulls and Mavericks met frequently last season, the relationship between Lu Yu and Wang Zhizhi was really lackluster, and the NBA had no topic to hype it up.
This time is different, this time Yao Ming is the No. 1 pick.
The 226cm tall center has performed extremely well recently, leading the Warriors to a record of 5 wins and 4 losses at the beginning of the season, making him the most likely candidate for this year's Rookie of the Year.
Because of Lu Yu's existence, Yao Ming faced much less pressure than Yao Ming in Lu Yu's previous life, which gave him more room to grow wildly.
In the Warriors, he played like a fish in water.
The data of 16 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists per game are not only worthy of his status as the number one draft pick, but also worthy of his height of 226cm. Many people have compared him with many historical centers.
So this derby match between the Bulls and the Warriors is full of gimmicks.
The NBA and CCTV had been planning the China Derby for several days in advance. When the game started that day, the ratings of CCTV's five sets soared, making David Stern grin to the back of his head.
However, the result of this game is nothing to say.
The Bulls defeated the Warriors 112-84 at home. This was because the Bulls players were slightly waterproof, otherwise the score would definitely not look good.
The Warriors' players are too young, inexperienced, and often make low-level mistakes. I don't know how they managed to achieve a record of 5 wins and 4 losses at the beginning of the season.
However, Yao Ming performed well in this game, scoring 20 points and 11 rebounds.
This made Brad Miller complain depressingly after the game, "What on earth did this guy eat to grow? Why is he so tall? I didn't even bother to guard O'Neal so much."
Lu Yu scored 23 points and 11 assists in the game, which made Antoine Jamison so depressed that he wanted to cry.
Lu Yu, who plays small forward, made dunk champions Richardson and Arenas breathe a sigh of relief. They no longer have to be harmed by Lu Yu on the outside.
At the end of the game, Zhang Weiping commented: "Yao Ming and Lu Yu are really not the same level of players now. Although Yao Ming has proven his dominance in the CBA, he is still just a rookie in the NBA."
Sun Yiping also smiled and said: "Yes, Lu Yu is now a top player in the NBA and the star of the Bulls team with the best record in the league. This is what Yao Ming needs to work hard for. In any case, let us congratulate Lu Yu for winning this game.
Victory, congratulations to the Bulls for their 11th consecutive victory at the start of this season!"
After the game.
Lu Yu drove the car and picked up Yao Ming from the hotel where the visiting team was staying, as well as Arenas who insisted on following him.
Fortunately, Lu Yu recently returned a larger car, otherwise Yao Ming would not be able to fit in it.
The wiper on the car window slid slowly, and the sound of rain hitting the roof still couldn't cover up Arenas's chattering mouth.
"It's either windy or rainy in Washington. Lu, why don't you go to Oakland to develop? Yao Ming happens to be here too. You two can form a powerful combination."
Lu Yao combination?
Lu Yu was noncommittal about what Arenas said, even though Arenas kept telling him how good Oakland was and how popular Yao Ming was in Oakland. The large number of local Chinese people kept Yao Ming's popularity high with the Warriors.
But Lu Yu didn't want to.
He has finally established a foothold in the Bulls. This season is the one with the best chance of winning the championship, so a fool would go to a weak team like the Warriors.
Regardless of the fact that the Warriors have a good record now, they will only be tested more seriously after other teams understand the situation.
After all, Yao Ming's rookie wall hasn't been hit yet.
Lu Yu took them to eat at Lu Ji Restaurant in Chicago. Lu Ji in Chicago has become a gathering place for Bulls fans. Many Chinese fans like to come here to watch Bulls games. Not only Chinese, but also local Chicagoans.
I also like to eat here because the Chinese food at Lu Ji is so delicious.
Lu Yu parked the car and took the two of them into the restaurant.
"Oh my god, it's Lu Yu!"
"That big man is Yao Ming of our Chinese men's basketball team!"
"The news is true. It turns out that when good friends come to Chicago, Lu Yu will take them to Lu Ji Restaurant for dinner."
"Lu Yu, can you sign your name for me?"
"Yao Ming, I want your autograph too."
Arenas is speechless, I am also famous, okay?
Why don't you know how to ask me for my autograph? After all, I am also an NBA star, although my star is a bit dim.
Lu Yu and Yao Ming signed autographs for the fans while walking inside. The staff also came over to assist the bodyguards in stopping the fans. Lu Yu took Yao Ming and Arenas into his exclusive box.
There is a private room in Lu Ji's restaurant that is specially used to entertain Lu Yu's guests.
Of course, Lu Yu would sometimes bring women over.
"Lu Yu, is it very profitable to open a restaurant?" Yao Ming asked.
Maybe it was Lu Yu's restaurant that inspired him, or maybe he had the idea of opening a restaurant in his heart, so he raised this question.
In fact, in Lu Yu's previous life, Yao Restaurant was very famous.
Yao Restaurant is located at No. 9755 Westheimer Street, the most prosperous high-end restaurant street in the XC District of Houston, USA.
It was jointly founded by Yao Ming's parents, Yao Zhiyuan and Fang Fengdi, their teammates from the Shanghai men's and women's basketball teams in the 1970s, Wang Dashiang, Kong Qingling and his wife, as well as Fu Jilin, the owner of four Chinese restaurants in Houston, and Yu's brother who opened a Sichuan restaurant.
The idea of Yao Restaurant was planned by Yu Di, one of the four major shareholders and the deputy general manager in charge of market development.
She said: "At first, I thought that Yao Ming was so influential, and whatever dishes Yao's mother cooked were very popular. Reports mentioned Yao's mother's chicken soup, Yao's mother's wontons and so on. Everyone must be thinking that Yao Ming is so big after eating these.
"If the Yao family opens a restaurant, it represents authenticity and will be very attractive to Chinese and Americans."
The total investment in Yao Restaurant reached more than 1.5 million US dollars, but the Yao family did not pay a penny, only the word "Yao" was used. The money was invested by Wang Dashiang, Fu Jilin and Yu Di.
Yao Ming himself once said: "'Yao Restaurant' has nothing to do with me. That Yao is my father's Yao, not my Yao."
But this does not prevent Yao Ming from often inviting friends to have dinner there.
And now that he saw Lu Yu's Lu Ji Restaurant, he also had the idea of opening a restaurant.
Lu Yu glanced at Yao Ming subconsciously. He only knew that Yao Ming had a business mind, but he didn't expect that his business mind was so flexible.
If he didn't play basketball, Yao Ming would definitely be a successful businessman.
"Of course. If you don't have enough money, I can lend it to you first."
Lu Yu is quite generous.
Yao Ming's current salary is not high, and he earns a lot of money from endorsements, but a large part of this money is used to repay the fees Lu Yu paid for him to the Basketball Association and the Sharks.
"No."
Yao Ming shook his head: "I don't want to borrow money. I think Lu Ji has already made a name for himself. I just hope that when you open a restaurant in Auckland in the future, you can take me with you and I can be a small shareholder."
These words made Lu Yu look at Yao Ming with admiration.
Instead of starting your own business and competing with Lu Yu in catering, it is better to join Lu Yu's camp directly and borrow Lu Yu's existing brands. Anyway, you will make money, and Yao Ming doesn't care whose brand it is.
In the end, he will rely on basketball to expand his influence, rather than a side business such as catering.
Lu Yu is different. Lu Yu has many industries of his own. Lu Yu's sideline business earns much more than what he earns from playing basketball.
Suddenly, a quarrel came from the box next door.
Lu Yu frowned and said, "You guys eat first, I'll go see what's going on."
After walking out of the door, Lu Yu called the staff over and asked. It turned out that a woman came to Lu Ji Restaurant to catch an adulterer and caught her husband dating another woman at the scene, so the quarrel started.
Now the man and his lover have left, leaving only the woman alone in the box.
The woman didn't come out, and the waiter didn't know what to do.
Lu Yu thought it was a trivial matter and didn't intend to pay much attention to it. It would not be long before the woman would leave.
He was just about to return to his box when he suddenly heard the waiter whisper: "That woman is coming out..."
Lu Yu subconsciously looked up and was stunned.
Is it a flower ball?
Monica Bellucci?
Moreover, it was Monica Bellucci who had tears in her eyes. Isn’t it a bit of taking advantage of someone’s situation to come up to comfort her at this time?
Lu Yu didn't want to be a scumbag. He now regretted his dissolute behavior when he first time traveled. After all, human energy is limited, and scumbags cannot be greedy.
He was going to go back to his box to avoid the danger.
